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Author : Anne Fadiman
Publisher : Macmillan
ISBN 13 : 9780374527228
Total Pages : 180 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (272 download)
Download or read book Ex Libris written by Anne Fadiman and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 2000-11-25 with total page 180 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A collection of essays discusses the central and joyful importance of books and reading in the author's life.
Author : Patricia Cornwell
Publisher : WaterBrook
ISBN 13 : 0385489005
Total Pages : 305 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (854 download)
Download or read book Ruth, A Portrait written by Patricia Cornwell and published by WaterBrook. This book was released on 1998-10-20 with total page 305 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ruth Bell Graham is known as the wife of evangelist Billy Graham. It was Ruth who influenced Billy, as his most trusted life-partner. In Ruth, a Portrait, we meet this fascinating and remarkable woman. Brimming with anecdotes, this is a breathtaking journey, with stops at many of this century's epoch-making events. The childhood years of the future Mrs. Billy Graham were spent light-years away--in the China of the 1920s and 1930s. The daughter of medical missionaries, she and her family were caught in a crucible of unspeakable hardship; in addition to pestilence and plague, there was the unstable political and military turmoil surrounding the Nationalist government, the Communists, and the Japanese invaders. These hazardous realities shaped Ruth Bell and her family, a family inured to difficulties, but buoyed up by their deep belief in God's abiding will. Virtually raised by the Grahams, the author is a repository of Ruth Bell Graham's stories and has seen firsthand the spirit of this courageous woman. Patricia Cornwell not only gives readers a full, rounded, and intimate portrait of Ruth Bell Graham, but also insight into the life of the Graham family and particularly Billy Graham.
Author : Michiko Kakutani
Publisher : Clarkson Potter
ISBN 13 : 0525574980
Total Pages : 306 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (255 download)
Download or read book Ex Libris written by Michiko Kakutani and published by Clarkson Potter. This book was released on 2020-10-20 with total page 306 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Pulitzer Prize–winning literary critic Michiko Kakutani shares 100 personal, thought-provoking essays about books that have mattered to her and that help illuminate the world we live in today—with beautiful illustrations throughout. “A book tailormade for bibliophiles.”—Oprah Winfrey “An ebullient celebration of books and reading.”—Publishers Weekly (starred review) In the introduction to her new collection of essays, Ex Libris: 100+ Books to Read and Reread, Michiko Kakutani writes: “In a world riven by political and social divisions, literature can connect people across time zones and zip codes, across cultures and religions, national boundaries and historical eras. It can give us an understanding of lives very different from our own, and a sense of the shared joys and losses of human experience.” Readers will discover novels and memoirs by some of the most gifted writers working today; favorite classics worth reading or rereading; and nonfiction works, both old and new, that illuminate our social and political landscape and some of today’s most pressing issues, from climate change to medicine to the consequences of digital innovation. There are essential works in American history (The Federalist Papers, The Writings and Speeches of Martin Luther King, Jr.); books that address timely cultural dynamics (Elizabeth Kolbert’s The Sixth Extinction, Daniel J. Boorstin’s The Image, Margaret Atwood’s The Handmaid’s Tale); classics of children’s literature (the Harry Potter novels, Where the Wild Things Are); and novels by acclaimed contemporary writers like Don DeLillo, William Gibson, Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, and Ian McEwan. With richly detailed illustrations by lettering artist Dana Tanamachi that evoke vintage bookplates, Ex Libris is an impassioned reminder of why reading matters more than ever.
Author : Ross King
Publisher : Random House
ISBN 13 : 1448189608
Total Pages : 399 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (481 download)
Download or read book Ex Libris written by Ross King and published by Random House. This book was released on 2013-06-30 with total page 399 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Responding to a cryptic summons to a remote country house, London bookseller Isaac Inchbold finds himself responsible for restoring a magnificent library pillaged during the English Civil War, and in the process slipping from the surface of 1660s London into an underworld of spies and smugglers, ciphers and forgeries. As he assembles the fragments of a complex historical mystery, Inchbold learns how Sir Ambrose Plessington, founder of the library, escaped from Bohemia on the eve of the Thirty Years War with plunder from the Imperial Library. Inchbold's hunt for one of these stolen volumes - a lost Hermetic text - soon casts him into an elaborate intrigue; his fortunes hang on the discovery of the missing manuscript but his search reveals that the elusive volume is not what it seems and that he has been made an unwitting player in a treacherous game.
Author : Matt Madden
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781941250440
Total Pages : 120 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (54 download)
Download or read book Ex Libris written by Matt Madden and published by . This book was released on 2021-10-19 with total page 120 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: You are looking at (or: you are holding) the book Ex Libris by Matt Madden. Maybe you came looking for it, maybe you just came across it in a bookstore or at someone's house. Maybe you are reading this in a catalogue on a screen. What kind of adventure do you think takes place in these pages? To judge by the cover design and the title, it would seem that books themselves are a subject of this book. Does this book have a comic book as its hero? If you put the book down now, you'll never find out, but on the other hand imaginary, hypothetical versions of the story will branch off endlessly in some corner of your mind. If you do want to find out what happens, all you need to do is open the book and read the first page. But be careful: you might just get sucked in
Author : Ralph Gibson
Publisher : powerHouse Books
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 156 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)
Download or read book Ex Libris written by Ralph Gibson and published by powerHouse Books. This book was released on 2001 with total page 156 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An artist-printed signed and numbered silver-gelatin photographic print, eight by ten inches, inside a specially produced clothbound slipcase with a book signed and numbered by the artist.
Author : Paula Guran
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781607014898
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (148 download)
Download or read book Ex Libris: Stories of Librarians, Libraries, and Lore written by Paula Guran and published by . This book was released on 2017 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Portals to all the knowledge in the world, libraries are also created universes of a multitude of imaginations. Librarians guide us to enlightenment as well as serving as the captains, mages, and gatekeepers who open the doors to delight, speculation, wonder, and terror. Both inspire writers of speculative fiction to pen wonderful tales woven around them. This captivating compilation of science fiction and fantasy short fiction showcases stories of librarians-mysterious curators, heroic bibliognosts, arcane archivists, catalogers of very special collections-and libraries-repositories of arcane wisdom, storehouses of signals from other galaxies, bastions of culture, the last outposts of civilization in a post-apocalyptic world . . . grand adventures and small sagas of the magical places we call libraries and the wizards who staff them!
Author : Anne Fadiman
Publisher : Farrar, Straus and Giroux
ISBN 13 : 1429929421
Total Pages : 162 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (299 download)
Download or read book Ex Libris written by Anne Fadiman and published by Farrar, Straus and Giroux. This book was released on 2011-04-01 with total page 162 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Anne Fadiman is--by her own admission--the sort of person who learned about sex from her father's copy of Fanny Hill, whose husband buys her 19 pounds of dusty books for her birthday, and who once found herself poring over her roommate's 1974 Toyota Corolla manual because it was the only written material in the apartment that she had not read at least twice. This witty collection of essays recounts a lifelong love affair with books and language. For Fadiman, as for many passionate readers, the books she loves have become chapters in her own life story. Writing with remarkable grace, she revives the tradition of the well-crafted personal essay, moving easily from anecdotes about Coleridge and Orwell to tales of her own pathologically literary family. As someone who played at blocks with her father's 22-volume set of Trollope ("My Ancestral Castles") and who only really considered herself married when she and her husband had merged collections ("Marrying Libraries"), she is exquisitely well equipped to expand upon the art of inscriptions, the perverse pleasures of compulsive proof-reading, the allure of long words, and the satisfactions of reading out loud. There is even a foray into pure literary gluttony--Charles Lamb liked buttered muffin crumbs between the leaves, and Fadiman knows of more than one reader who literally consumes page corners. Perfectly balanced between humor and erudition, Ex Libris establishes Fadiman as one of our finest contemporary essayists.
Author : Simon Groth
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780648374626
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (746 download)
Download or read book Ex Libris written by Simon Groth and published by . This book was released on 2020-08-03 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Jim C. Hines
Publisher : Penguin
ISBN 13 : 0756408172
Total Pages : 370 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (564 download)
Download or read book Libriomancer written by Jim C. Hines and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2013-08-06 with total page 370 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Includes excerpt from Codex born (pages 351-359).
Author : John Oehler
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781689376655
Total Pages : 387 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (766 download)
Download or read book Ex Libris written by John Oehler and published by . This book was released on 2019-09-05 with total page 387 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From 1ST PLACE WINNER in PNWA fiction comes EX LIBRIS, an action-packed thriller of international deception and worldwide peril. --Dan Lovel, a former agent with the US Diplomatic Security Service, has saved lives, taken lives, and enraged a lot of people who still wish him dead. He now lives off the grid recovering stolen art and destroying counterfeits. Shortly before Christmas, Astrid Desmarais, a World Bank executive whom Dan once saved, asks him to steal five books from the locked collection of forbidden books in a monastery in Prague. Dan reluctantly agrees, but from the moment he enters the monastery, events explode into near chaos. What secrets do these books hold? Why have they been hidden for centuries? Why are people willing to kill to possess them? When Dan discovers the shocking truth of the last volume, he realizes its potential to ignite global conflict of unparalleled scale. He faces decisions that tear at his soul, but he must return to the life he tried to bury and draw on all his former skills to prevent nuclear war. Reminiscent of Dan Brown's The Da Vinci Code, Umberto Eco's The Name of the Rose, and Robert Ludlum's The Bourne Identity, EX LIBRIS is a pulse-pounding page-turner that will keep you up at night. You will be thinking of its chilling ramifications long after finishing. John Oehler is a bestselling, multiple award-winning author. His other novels include Aphrodesia: Death by Passion, Papyrus, and Tepui: The Last Expedition.
Author : Jim C. Hines
Publisher : Astra Publishing House
ISBN 13 : 1101635754
Total Pages : 378 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (16 download)
Download or read book Codex Born written by Jim C. Hines and published by Astra Publishing House. This book was released on 2013-08-06 with total page 378 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Hugo winner Jim C. Hines's hilarious and clever Magic ex Libris series, where books come alive and libriomancer Isaac Vainio combats magical threats that spring from the page Five hundred years ago, Johannes Gutenberg discovered the art of libriomancy, allowing him to reach into books to create things from their pages. Gutenberg’s power brought him many enemies, and some of those enemies have waited centuries for revenge. Revenge which begins with the brutal slaughter of a wendigo in the northern Michigan town of Tamarack, a long-established werewolf territory. Libriomancer Isaac Vainio is part of Die Zwelf Portenære, better known as the Porters, the organization founded by Gutenberg to protect the world from magical threats. Isaac is called in to investigate the killing, along with Porter psychiatrist Nidhi Shah and their dryad bodyguard and lover, Lena Greenwood. Born decades ago from the pages of a pulp fantasy novel, Lena was created to be the ultimate fantasy woman, strong and deadly, but shaped by the needs and desires of her companions. Her powers are unique, and Gutenberg’s enemies hope to use those powers for themselves. But their plan could unleash a far darker evil…
Author : Mary Roach
Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
ISBN 13 : 0393324826
Total Pages : 305 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (933 download)
Download or read book Stiff: The Curious Lives of Human Cadavers written by Mary Roach and published by W. W. Norton & Company. This book was released on 2004-04-27 with total page 305 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A look inside the world of forensics examines the use of human cadavers in a wide range of endeavors, including research into new surgical procedures, space exploration, and a Tennessee human decay research facility.
Author : Carol Belanger Grafton
Publisher : Courier Corporation
ISBN 13 : 0486998789
Total Pages : 52 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (869 download)
Download or read book Bookplate Designs written by Carol Belanger Grafton and published by Courier Corporation. This book was released on 2008-08-01 with total page 52 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This unique homage to bookplate art illuminates over 320 of the craft's finest examples. A breathtaking variety of black-and-white designs embrace a multitude of styles: woodcuts, engravings, lithographs, typography, and more.
Author : Martin J. Hopkinson
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780300171631
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (716 download)
Download or read book Ex Libris written by Martin J. Hopkinson and published by . This book was released on 2011 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Endlessly diverse and appealing, bookplates are small decorative labels pasted inside a book's cover to express personal ownership. This volume explores the various sources of "ex libris" inspiration, including designs by C.R. Ashbee, Eric Gill, and Rudyard Kipling.
Author : Anne Fadiman
Publisher : Macmillan
ISBN 13 : 9780374530549
Total Pages : 276 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (35 download)
Download or read book Rereadings written by Anne Fadiman and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 2006-09-05 with total page 276 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Answering the question "is a book the same the second time around?" this collection of essays includes contributions from Sven Krkerts, Allegra Goodman, Vivian Gornick, Patricia Hampl, Phillip Lopate, and Luc Sante, among others.
Author : Emily Jacir
Publisher : Walther Konig Verlag
ISBN 13 : 9783863352431
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (524 download)
Download or read book Emily Jacir written by Emily Jacir and published by Walther Konig Verlag. This book was released on 2012 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Ex Libris, Emily Jacir (born 1970) commemorates the approximately 30,000 books that were looted by Israel in 1948 from Palestinian homes and institutions. Six thousand of these books are held at the Jewish National Library of Israel under the designation "A.P." (Abandoned Property). Jacir photographed these books during repeated visits to the library.
